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Quotes by George Santayana
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
George Santayana"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
George Santayana"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."
George Santayana"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
George Santayana"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
George Santayana"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."
George Santayana"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
George Santayana"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
George Santayana"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
George Santayana"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."
George Santayana"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."
George Santayana"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
George Santayana"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
George Santayana"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
George Santayana"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
George Santayana"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
George Santayana"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
George Santayana"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."
George Santayana"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
George Santayana"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
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